Kyle Dunphey
Utah News Dispatch
The U.S. Supreme Court announced last week it will not hear Utah’s sweeping public lands lawsuit, where the state argued it should take over 18.5 million acres of federally controlled land within its borders.
The state can still file another, similar lawsuit with a lower court. But as of last Monday morning, Utah’s ambitious legal challenge, which could have set the precedent for a massive land transfer across the West, is at a dead end.
Filed in August, the state had petitioned directly to the nation’s high court, asking justices to declare it unconstitutional for the Bureau of Land Management, or BLM, to hold on to land without a formal designation.
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